Hi Ceki,

Thank you.

I'm retiring at the end of November 2021, it's time to spend more time with the family.

We started the Quality Outreach back in October 2014. We now have 170+ projects participating.

Thank you for taking the time to provide Testing feedback , excellent bugs and support throughout

the last seven years.

It's been a pleasure working with you. I am delighted to say that the program will continue

with the support of the Java DevRel Team, with David Delabassee as your contact. David has

been assisting with on-boarding new projects for the last couple of years.

All the best, Rory

OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 20 is now available at https://jdk.java.net/18/

These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the

GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

Release Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes
Features:

JEPs integrated to JDK 18, so far:

JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default
JEP 408: Simple Web Server
JEP 413: Code Snippets in Java API Documentation

JEPs targeted to JDK 18, so far

JEP 417: Vector API (Third Incubator)

JEPs proposed to target JDK 18:
- JEP 416: Reimplement Core Reflection with Method Handles

Significant changes since the last availability email:

Build 20:

JDK-8275252: Migrate cacerts from JKS to password-less PKCS12
JDK-8275149: (ch) ReadableByteChannel returned by Channels.newChannel(InputStream) throws ReadOnlyBufferException
JDK-8266936: Add a finalization JFR event
JDK-8264849: Add KW and KWP support to PKCS11 provider

Build 19:

JDK-8274840: Update OS detection code to recognize Windows 11
JDK-8274407: (tz) Update Timezone Data to 2021c
JDK-8273102: Delete deprecated for removal the empty finalize() in java.desktop module

Build 18:

JDK-8274656: Remove default_checksum and safe_checksum_type from krb5.conf
JDK-8274471: Add support for RSASSA-PSS in OCSP Response
JDK-8274227: Remove "impl.prefix" jdk system property usage from InetAddress
JDK-8274002: [win11 and winserver2022] JDK executable installer from network drive starts with huge delay
JDK-8273670: Remove weak etypes from default krb5 etype list

Build 17:

JDK-8273401: Disable JarIndex Support In URLClassPath
JDK-8231640: (prop) Canonical property storage

Build 16:
JDK-8269039: Disable SHA-1 Signed JARs

Topics of Interest:

JDK 17:

Inside Java Podcast “Java 17 is Here!”

Part 1: https://inside.java/2021/09/14/podcast-019/
Part 2: https://inside.java/2021/09/27/podcast-020/

G1 GC & Parallel GC Improvements in JDK 17

https://inside.java/2021/09/17/jdk-17-gc-updates/

ZGC - What's new in JDK 17

https://inside.java/2021/10/05/zgc-in-jdk17/

JDK 17 Security Enhancements

https://inside.java/2021/09/15/jdk-17-security-enhancements/

The Vector API in JDK 17 (video)

https://inside.java/2021/09/23/devlive-vector-api/

Faster Charset Encoding

https://inside.java/2021/10/17/faster-charset-encoding/

JDK 18:

JEP 400 and the Default Charset

https://inside.java/2021/10/04/the-default-charset-jep400/

JDK 18 augmented `javac -Xlint:serial` checks

https://inside.java/2021/10/20/augmented-serial-checks

Project Panama - Foreign Function & Memory API:

Finalizing the Foreign APIs

https://inside.java/2021/09/16/finalizing-the-foreign-apis/

Resource Scope Dependencies

https://inside.java/2021/10/12/panama-scope-dependencies/

October 2021 Critical Patch Update Released

As part of the October 2021, we released JDK 17.0.1 LTS, JDK 11.0.13 LTS, JDK 8u311 and JDK 7u321 as well as OpenJDK 17.0.1 (publicly available).

Rgds,Rory

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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland